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Call for Papers: Screening the Past: Special Issue (2010)
Cinema/Photography: Beyond Representation
Guest Editors: Des O’Rawe and Sam Rohdie
The development of new digital technologies and representational forms has revived interest in the relations between photography and cinema, an interest that is both creative and critical. Independent film-makers are availing themselves of alternative exhibition formats and spaces for their work (e.g. multi-media installations, galleries, the internet, etc.), and moving image experimentation is now commonplace in the fields of contemporary fine art, design, music, and theatre. The writings of Bazin, Barthes, Metz, and Deleuze are being re-read in light of the aesthetic and institutional implications of digitalisation. A substantial body of work is now being devoted to such topics as: the movement of stillness, and vice versa; the expressive significance of still photographs in specific films; films that are about photography and/or particular photographers; photography that takes the cinema, particularly the cinematic apparatus as its subject matter; and, the film-making of photographers, and the photographic work of film-makers.
Screening the Past is seeking original, or substantially revised, and/or newly translated articles on the aesthetic and institutional relations between film, photography, and the visual arts. In particular, we are interested in writing that is attentive to cinematic forms and their reconfiguration within the contemporary visual arts.
Please send 500 word abstracts/outline proposals to both editors by December 31, 2009.
Des O’Rawe: d.orawe@qub.ac.uk
Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen’s University Belfast
Sam Rohdie: srohdie@bellsouth.net
Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Central Florida
Call for Book Proposals: Cinema Aesthetics
Since the seventies, many academics and teachers have been taking the study of film out of Film Studies by producing curricula and critical literature hostile to notions of artistic endeavour and aesthetic value. An old heresy is a new orthodoxy and the argument that the cinema exists solely to illustrate the politics of culture, identity, and pleasure is no longer an argument; it is now a 'core doctrine' of film education, particularly in the UK and the US. The Cinema Aesthetics series aims to challenge this orthodoxy by publishing visually literate and intellectually creative studies that explore an aesthetic term, critical category, or interdisciplinary issue associated with the art of film.
The series is being published by Manchester University Press and it will offer students, teachers, practitioners, and general readers a range of short, accessible and inexpensive primers on the cinema. Each book will be approx. 30,000 words in length and will include still images and bibliographical references. Forthcoming and recently commissioned titles include: Montage, The Shot, Colour, Time, and Experimental Film.
The series editors would welcome proposals (1,000 words) sympathetic to the aims of this series.
Sam Rohdie: srohdie@bellsouth.net
Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Central Florida
Des O'Rawe: d.orawe@qub.ac.uk
Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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